[R] R/Tk from batch file

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

David Lucy <dlucy at maths.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear R-help,
> 
> Reccently I've been working on sample size estimates for our forensic
> scientists and have to make the work accessible to them, preferably 
> in some Windows based graphical form. The obvious choise was Tk via R,
> so I now have a couple of very nice, user friendly front ends for
> calculating betas and beta-binomials which run equally well under
> Windows and other systems (same code - amazing).

This almost works, but there seems to be a bug in Rterm/Tcl preventing
R from closing up properly (in w98 under win4lin).

$ cat win/Programmer/R/rw1040/bin/tkR.bat 
Rterm --vanilla < tk.R

$ cat win/Programmer/R/rw1040/bin/tk.R
library(tcltk)
tt <- tktoplevel()
v <- tclVar()
tkpack(tkcheckbutton(tt,variable=v))
tkwait.variable(v)
tkdestroy(tt)
q("no")

Then make a shortcut that calls up tkR.bat. 

For now, it might be better to just leave the process hanging at

tkwait.variable("fubar")

and close stuff up by closing the controlling "DOS-box".

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